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<p><span class="w" id="w0">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w1">Voyage</span> <span class="w" id="w2">du</span> <span class="w" id="w3">Horla</span></p><p><span id="s0"><span class="w" id="w4">J'avais</span> <span class="w" id="w5">reçu</span>, <span class="w" id="w6">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w7">la</span> <span class="w" id="w8">matinée</span> <span class="w" id="w9">du</span> <span class="w" id="w10">8</span> <span class="w" id="w11">juillet</span>, <span class="w" id="w12">le</span> <span class="w" id="w13">télégramme</span> <span class="w" id="w14">que</span> <span class="w" id="w15">voici:</span> <span class="w" id="w16">'Beau</span> <span class="w" id="w17">temps</span><span class="translation" id="1">.</span></span> <span id="s1"><span class="w" id="w18">Toujours</span> <span class="w" id="w19">mes</span> <span class="w" id="w20">prédictions</span><span class="translation" id="2">.</span></span> <span id="s2"><span class="w" id="w21">Frontières</span> <span class="w" id="w22">belges</span><span class="translation" id="3">.</span></span> <span id="s3"><span class="w" id="w23">Départ</span> <span class="w" id="w24">du</span> <span class="w" id="w25">matériel</span> <span class="w" id="w26">et</span> <span class="w" id="w27">du</span> <span class="w" id="w28">personnel</span> <span class="w" id="w29">à</span> <span class="w" id="w30">midi</span>, <span class="w" id="w31">au</span> <span class="linked" id="4"><span class="w" id="w32">siège</span> <span class="w" id="w33">social</span></span><span class="translation" id="5">.</span></span> <span id="s4"><span class="w" id="w34">Commencement</span> <span class="w" id="w35">des</span> <span class="w" id="w36">manoeuvres</span> <span class="w" id="w37">à</span> <span class="w" id="w38">trois</span> <span class="w" id="w39">heures</span><span class="translation" id="6">.</span></span> <span id="s5"><span class="w" id="w40">Ainsi</span> <span class="w" id="w41">donc</span> <span class="w" id="w42">je</span> <span class="w" id="w43">vous</span> <span class="w" id="w44">attends</span> <span class="w" id="w45">à</span> <span class="w" id="w46">l'<span class="linked" id="233">usine</span></span> <span class="w" id="w47">à</span> <span class="w" id="w48">partir</span> <span class="w" id="w49">de</span> <span class="w" id="w50">cinq</span> <span class="w" id="w51">heures</span><span class="translation" id="7">.</span></span> <span id="s6"><span class="w" id="w52">JOVIS</span><span class="translation" id="8">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s7"><span class="w" id="w53">'A</span> <span class="w" id="w54">cinq</span> <span class="w" id="w55">heures</span> <span class="w" id="w56">précises</span>, <span class="w" id="w57">j'entrais</span> <span class="w" id="w58">à</span> <span class="w" id="w59">l'usine</span> <span class="w" id="w60">à</span> <span class="w" id="w61">gaz</span> <span class="w" id="w62">de</span> <span class="w" id="w63">La</span> <span class="w" id="w64">Villette</span><span class="translation" id="9">.</span></span> <span id="s8"><span class="w" id="w65">On</span> <span class="w" id="w66">dirait</span> <span class="w" id="w67">les</span> <span class="linked" id="10"><span class="w" id="w68">ruines</span></span> <span class="w" id="w69">colossales</span> <span class="w" id="w70">d'une</span> <span class="linked" id="135"><span class="w" id="w71">ville</span> <span class="w" id="w72">de</span> <span class="w" id="w73">cyclopes</span></span><span class="translation" id="11">.</span></span> <span id="s9"><span class="w" id="w74">D'énormes</span> <span class="w" id="w75">et</span> <span class="linked" id="136"><span class="w" id="w76">sombres</span></span> <span class="w" id="w77">avenues</span> <span class="w" id="w78">s'ouvrent</span> <span class="w" id="w79">entre</span> <span class="w" id="w80">les</span> <span class="w" id="w81">lourds</span> <span class="linked" id="12"><span class="w" id="w82">gazomètres</span></span> <span class="w" id="w83">alignés</span> <span class="w" id="w84">l'un</span> <span class="w" id="w85">derrière</span> <span class="w" id="w86">l'autre</span>, <span class="w" id="w87">pareils</span> <span class="w" id="w88">à</span> <span class="w" id="w89">des</span> <span class="linked" id="13"><span class="w" id="w90">colonnes</span></span> <span class="linked" id="134"><span class="w" id="w91">monstrueuses</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="133"><span class="w" id="w92">tronquées</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w93">inégalement</span> <span class="w" id="w94">hautes</span> <span class="w" id="w95">et</span> <span class="w" id="w96">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w97">portaient</span> <span class="w" id="w98">sans</span> <span class="w" id="w99">doute</span>, <span class="w" id="w100">autrefois</span>, <span class="w" id="w101">quelque</span> <span class="linked" id="132"><span class="w" id="w102">effrayant</span></span> <span class="linked" id="131"><span class="w" id="w103">édifice</span></span> <span class="w" id="w104">de</span> <span class="w" id="w105">fer</span><span class="translation" id="14">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s10"><span class="w" id="w106">Dans</span> <span class="w" id="w107">la</span> <span class="linked" id="39"><span class="w" id="w108">cour</span> <span class="w" id="w109">d'entrée</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="15"><span class="w" id="w110">gît</span></span> <span class="w" id="w111">le</span> <span class="w" id="w112">ballon</span>, <span class="w" id="w113">une</span> <span class="w" id="w114">grande</span> <span class="linked" id="16"><span class="w" id="w115">galette</span></span> <span class="w" id="w116">de</span> <span class="linked" id="19"><span class="w" id="w117">toile</span></span> <span class="w" id="w118">jaune</span>, <span class="linked" id="17"><span class="w" id="w119">aplatie</span></span> <span class="w" id="w120">à</span> <span class="w" id="w121">terre</span>, <span class="w" id="w122">sous</span> <span class="w" id="w123">un</span> <span class="linked" id="18"><span class="w" id="w124">filet</span></span><span class="translation" id="20">.</span></span> <span id="s11"><span class="w" id="w125">On</span> <span class="w" id="w126">appelle</span> <span class="w" id="w127">cela</span> <span class="w" id="w128">la</span> <span class="linked" id="130"><span class="w" id="w129">mise</span></span> <span class="w" id="w130">en</span> <span class="linked" id="38"><span class="w" id="w131">épervier</span></span><span class="translation" id="51">;</span></span> <span id="s12"><span class="w" id="w132">et</span> <span class="w" id="w133">il</span> <span class="w" id="w134">a</span> <span class="w" id="w135">l'air</span>, <span class="w" id="w136">en</span> <span class="w" id="w137">effet</span>, <span class="w" id="w138">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w139">vaste</span> <span class="w" id="w140">poisson</span> <span class="w" id="w141">pris</span> <span class="w" id="w142">et</span> <span class="w" id="w143">mort</span><span class="translation" id="21">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s13"><span class="w" id="w144">Deux</span> <span class="w" id="w145">ou</span> <span class="w" id="w146">trois</span> <span class="w" id="w147">cents</span> <span class="w" id="w148">personnes</span> <span class="w" id="w149">le</span> <span class="w" id="w150">regardent</span>, <span class="linked" id="138"><span class="w" id="w151">assises</span></span> <span class="w" id="w152">ou</span> <span class="linked" id="139"><span class="w" id="w153">debout</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w154">ou</span> <span class="w" id="w155">bien</span> <span class="w" id="w156">examinent</span> <span class="w" id="w157">la</span> <span class="linked" id="23"><span class="w" id="w158">nacelle</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w159">un</span> <span class="w" id="w160">joli</span> <span class="linked" id="32"><span class="w" id="w161">panier</span></span> <span class="linked" id="36"><span class="w" id="w162">carré</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w163">un</span> <span class="w" id="w164">panier</span> <span class="w" id="w165">à</span> <span class="linked" id="33"><span class="w" id="w166">chair</span></span> <span class="w" id="w167">humaine</span> <span class="w" id="w168">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="140"><span class="w" id="w169">porte</span></span> <span class="w" id="w170">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w171">son</span> <span class="linked" id="34"><span class="w" id="w172">flanc</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w173">en</span> <span class="linked" id="37"><span class="w" id="w174">lettres</span> <span class="w" id="w175">d'or</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w176">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w177">une</span> <span class="w" id="w178">plaque</span> <span class="w" id="w179">d'<span class="linked" id="35">acajou</span></span><span class="w" id="w180">: Le</span> <span class="w" id="w181">Horla</span><span class="translation" id="22">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s14"><span class="w" id="w182">On</span> <span class="linked" id="141"><span class="w" id="w183">se</span> <span class="w" id="w184">précipite</span></span> <span class="w" id="w185">soudain</span>, <span class="w" id="w186">car</span> <span class="w" id="w187">le</span> <span class="w" id="w188">gaz</span> <span class="w" id="w189">pénètre</span> <span class="w" id="w190">enfin</span> <span class="w" id="w191">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w192">le</span> <span class="w" id="w193">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w194">par</span> <span class="w" id="w195">un</span> <span class="w" id="w196">long</span> <span class="w" id="w197">tube</span> <span class="w" id="w198">de</span> <span class="linked" id="142"><span class="w" id="w199">toile</span></span> <span class="w" id="w200">jaune</span> <span class="w" id="w201">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="137"><span class="w" id="w202">rampe</span></span> <span class="w" id="w203">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w204">le</span> <span class="w" id="w205">sol</span>, <span class="linked" id="145"><span class="w" id="w206">se</span> <span class="w" id="w207">gonfle</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="143"><span class="w" id="w208">palpite</span></span> <span class="w" id="w209">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w210">un</span> <span class="w" id="w211">ver</span> <span class="linked" id="144"><span class="w" id="w212">démesuré</span></span><span class="translation" id="24">.</span></span> <span id="s15"><span class="w" id="w213">Mais</span> <span class="w" id="w214">une</span> <span class="w" id="w215">autre</span> <span class="linked" id="146"><span class="w" id="w216">pensée</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w217">une</span> <span class="w" id="w218">autre</span> <span class="w" id="w219">image</span> <span class="linked" id="147"><span class="w" id="w220">frappent</span></span> <span class="w" id="w221">tous</span> <span class="w" id="w222">les</span> <span class="w" id="w223">yeux</span> <span class="w" id="w224">et</span> <span class="w" id="w225">tous</span> <span class="w" id="w226">les</span> <span class="w" id="w227">esprits</span><span class="translation" id="26">.</span></span> <span id="s16"><span class="w" id="w228">C'est</span> <span class="w" id="w229">ainsi</span> <span class="w" id="w230">que</span> <span class="w" id="w231">la</span> <span class="w" id="w232">nature</span> <span class="w" id="w233">elle-même</span> <span class="w" id="w234">nourrit</span> <span class="w" id="w235">les</span> <span class="w" id="w236">êtres</span> <span class="w" id="w237">jusqu'à</span> <span class="w" id="w238">leur</span> <span class="linked" id="148"><span class="w" id="w239">naissance</span></span><span class="translation" id="27">.</span></span> <span id="s17"><span class="w" id="w240">La</span> <span class="w" id="w241">bête</span> <span class="w" id="w242">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="163"><span class="w" id="w243">s'envolera</span></span> <span class="w" id="w244">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w245">à</span> <span class="w" id="w246">l'heure</span> <span class="w" id="w247">commence</span> <span class="w" id="w248">à</span> <span class="w" id="w249">se</span> <span class="linked" id="149"><span class="w" id="w250">soulever</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w251">et</span> <span class="w" id="w252">les</span> <span class="w" id="w253">aides</span> <span class="w" id="w254">du</span> <span class="w" id="w255">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w256">Jovis</span>, <span class="w" id="w257">à</span> <span class="w" id="w258">mesure</span> <span class="w" id="w259">que</span> <span class="w" id="w260">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w261">Horla</span> <span class="linked" id="150"><span class="w" id="w262">grossit</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="164"><span class="w" id="w263">étendent</span></span> <span class="w" id="w264">et</span> <span class="w" id="w265">mettent</span> <span class="w" id="w266">en</span> <span class="w" id="w267">place</span> <span class="w" id="w268">le</span> <span class="w" id="w269">filet</span> <span class="w" id="w270">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w271">le</span> <span class="w" id="w272">couvre</span>, <span class="w" id="w273">de</span> <span class="w" id="w274">façon</span> <span class="w" id="w275">à</span> <span class="w" id="w276">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w277">que</span> <span class="w" id="w278">la</span> <span class="w" id="w279">pression</span> <span class="w" id="w280">soit</span> <span class="w" id="w281">bien</span> <span class="w" id="w282">régulière</span> <span class="w" id="w283">et</span> <span class="w" id="w284">également</span> <span class="linked" id="151"><span class="w" id="w285">répartie</span></span> <span class="w" id="w286">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w287">tous</span> <span class="w" id="w288">le</span> <span class="w" id="w289">points</span><span class="translation" id="25">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s18"><span class="w" id="w290">Cette</span> <span class="w" id="w291">opération</span> <span class="w" id="w292">est</span> <span class="w" id="w293">fort</span> <span class="w" id="w294">délicate</span> <span class="w" id="w295">et</span> <span class="w" id="w296">fort</span> <span class="w" id="w297">importante</span><span class="translation" id="50">;</span></span> <span id="s19"><span class="w" id="w298">car</span> <span class="w" id="w299">la</span> <span class="w" id="w300">résistance</span> <span class="w" id="w301">de</span> <span class="w" id="w302">la</span> <span class="w" id="w303">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w304">de</span> <span class="w" id="w305">coton</span>, <span class="w" id="w306">si</span> <span class="linked" id="152"><span class="w" id="w307">mince</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w308">dont</span> <span class="w" id="w309">est</span> <span class="w" id="w310">fait</span> <span class="w" id="w311">l'<span class="linked" id="165">aérostat</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w312">est</span> <span class="w" id="w313">calculée</span> <span class="w" id="w314">en</span> <span class="w" id="w315">raison</span> <span class="w" id="w316">de</span> <span class="w" id="w317">l'étendue</span> <span class="w" id="w318">du</span> <span class="w" id="w319">contact</span> <span class="w" id="w320">de</span> <span class="w" id="w321">cette</span> <span class="w" id="w322">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w323">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w324">le</span> <span class="w" id="w325">filet</span> <span class="w" id="w326">aux</span> <span class="linked" id="153"><span class="w" id="w327">mailles</span></span> <span class="w" id="w328">serrées</span> <span class="w" id="w329">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w330">portera</span> <span class="w" id="w331">la</span> <span class="w" id="w332">nacelle</span><span class="translation" id="29">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s20"><span class="w" id="w333">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w334">Horla</span>, <span class="w" id="w335">d'ailleurs</span>, <span class="w" id="w336">a</span> <span class="w" id="w337">été</span> <span class="linked" id="154"><span class="w" id="w338">dessiné</span></span> <span class="w" id="w339">par</span> <span class="w" id="w340">M</span>.</span> <span id="s21"><span class="w" id="w341">Mallet</span>, <span class="w" id="w342">construit</span> <span class="w" id="w343">sous</span> <span class="w" id="w344">ses</span> <span class="w" id="w345">yeux</span> <span class="w" id="w346">et</span> <span class="w" id="w347">par</span> <span class="w" id="w348">lui</span><span class="translation" id="28">.</span></span> <span id="s22"><span class="w" id="w349">Tout</span> <span class="w" id="w350">a</span> <span class="w" id="w351">été</span> <span class="w" id="w352">fait</span> <span class="w" id="w353">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w354">les</span> <span class="linked" id="31"><span class="w" id="w355">ateliers</span></span> <span class="w" id="w356">de</span> <span class="w" id="w357">M</span>.</span> <span id="s23"><span class="w" id="w358">Jovis</span>, <span class="w" id="w359">par</span> <span class="w" id="w360">le</span> <span class="linked" id="155"><span class="w" id="w361">personnel</span> <span class="w" id="w362">actif</span></span> <span class="w" id="w363">de</span> <span class="w" id="w364">la</span> <span class="linked" id="156"><span class="w" id="w365">société</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w366">et</span> <span class="w" id="w367">rien</span> <span class="w" id="w368">au</span> <span class="w" id="w369">dehors</span><span class="translation" id="30">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s24"><span class="w" id="w370">Ajoutons</span> <span class="w" id="w371">que</span> <span class="w" id="w372">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w373">est</span> <span class="w" id="w374">nouveau</span> <span class="w" id="w375">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w376">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w377">ballon</span>, <span class="w" id="w378">depuis</span> <span class="w" id="w379">le</span> <span class="linked" id="162"></span><span class="linked" id="160"><span class="w" id="w380">vernis</span></span> <span class="w" id="w381">jusqu'à</span> <span class="w" id="w382">la</span> <span class="linked" id="166"><span class="w" id="w383">soupape</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w384">ces</span> <span class="w" id="w385">deux</span> <span class="w" id="w386">choses</span> <span class="w" id="w387">essentielles</span> <span class="w" id="w388">de</span> <span class="w" id="w389">l'<span class="linked" id="167">aérostation</span></span><span class="translation" id="40">.</span></span> <span id="s25"><span class="w" id="w390">Il</span> <span class="w" id="w391">doit</span> <span class="w" id="w392">rendre</span> <span class="w" id="w393">la</span> <span class="w" id="w394">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w395">impénétrable</span> <span class="w" id="w396">au</span> <span class="w" id="w397">gaz</span>, <span class="w" id="w398">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w399">les</span> <span class="w" id="w400">flancs</span> <span class="w" id="w401">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w402">navire</span> <span class="w" id="w403">sont</span> <span class="w" id="w404">impénétrables</span> <span class="w" id="w405">à</span> <span class="w" id="w406">l'eau</span><span class="translation" id="41">.</span></span> <span id="s26"><span class="w" id="w407">Les</span> <span class="w" id="w408">anciens</span> <span class="linked" id="161"><span class="w" id="w409">vernis</span></span> <span class="w" id="w410">à</span> <span class="w" id="w411">base</span> <span class="w" id="w412">d'<span class="linked" id="158">huile</span></span> <span class="w" id="w413">de</span> <span class="linked" id="157"><span class="w" id="w414">lin</span></span> <span class="w" id="w415">avaient</span> <span class="w" id="w416">le</span> <span class="w" id="w417">double</span> <span class="w" id="w418">inconvénient</span> <span class="w" id="w419">de</span> <span class="linked" id="159"><span class="w" id="w420">fermenter</span></span> <span class="w" id="w421">et</span> <span class="w" id="w422">de</span> <span class="w" id="w423">brûler</span> <span class="w" id="w424">la</span> <span class="w" id="w425">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w426">qui</span>, <span class="w" id="w427">en</span> <span class="w" id="w428">peu</span> <span class="w" id="w429">de</span> <span class="w" id="w430">temps</span>, <span class="w" id="w431">se</span> <span class="linked" id="168"><span class="w" id="w432">déchirait</span></span> <span class="w" id="w433">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w434">du</span> <span class="w" id="w435">papier</span><span class="translation" id="42">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s27"><span class="w" id="w436">Les</span> <span class="w" id="w437">soupapes</span> <span class="w" id="w438">offraient</span> <span class="w" id="w439">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w440">danger</span> <span class="w" id="w441">de</span> <span class="w" id="w442">se</span> <span class="w" id="w443">refermer</span> <span class="w" id="w444">imparfaitement</span> <span class="w" id="w445">dès</span> <span class="w" id="w446">qu'elles</span> <span class="w" id="w447">avaient</span> <span class="w" id="w448">été</span> <span class="w" id="w449">ouvertes</span> <span class="w" id="w450">et</span> <span class="w" id="w451">qu'était</span> <span class="linked" id="234"><span class="w" id="w452">brisé</span></span> <span class="w" id="w453">l'<span class="linked" id="169">enduit</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w454">dit</span> <span class="linked" id="170"><span class="w" id="w455">cataplasme</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w456">dont</span> <span class="w" id="w457">on</span> <span class="w" id="w458">les</span> <span class="linked" id="173"></span><span class="linked" id="171"><span class="w" id="w459">garnissait</span></span><span class="translation" id="43">.</span></span> <span id="s28"><span class="w" id="w460">La</span> <span class="linked" id="235"><span class="w" id="w461">chute</span></span> <span class="w" id="w462">de</span> <span class="w" id="w463">M</span>.</span> <span id="s29"><span class="w" id="w464">Lhoste</span>, <span class="w" id="w465">en</span> <span class="w" id="w466">pleine</span> <span class="w" id="w467">mer</span> <span class="w" id="w468">et</span> <span class="w" id="w469">en</span> <span class="w" id="w470">pleine</span> <span class="w" id="w471">nuit</span>, <span class="w" id="w472">a</span> <span class="w" id="w473">prouvé</span>, <span class="w" id="w474">l'autre</span> <span class="w" id="w475">semaine</span>, <span class="w" id="w476">l'imperfection</span> <span class="w" id="w477">du</span> <span class="w" id="w478">vieux</span> <span class="w" id="w479">système</span><span class="translation" id="44">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s30"><span class="w" id="w480">On</span> <span class="w" id="w481">peut</span> <span class="w" id="w482">dire</span> <span class="w" id="w483">que</span> <span class="w" id="w484">les</span> <span class="w" id="w485">deux</span> <span class="w" id="w486">découvertes</span> <span class="w" id="w487">du</span> <span class="w" id="w488">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w489">Jovis</span>, <span class="w" id="w490">celle</span> <span class="w" id="w491">du</span> <span class="w" id="w492">vernis</span> <span class="w" id="w493">principalement</span>, <span class="w" id="w494">sont</span> <span class="w" id="w495">d'une</span> <span class="w" id="w496">valeur</span> <span class="w" id="w497">inestimable</span> <span class="w" id="w498">pour</span> <span class="w" id="w499">l'aérostation</span><span class="translation" id="45">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s31"><span class="w" id="w500">On</span> <span class="w" id="w501">en</span> <span class="w" id="w502">parle</span> <span class="w" id="w503">d'ailleurs</span> <span class="w" id="w504">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w505">la</span> <span class="linked" id="172"><span class="w" id="w506">foule</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w507">et</span> <span class="w" id="w508">des</span> <span class="w" id="w509">hommes</span>, <span class="w" id="w510">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w511">semblent</span> <span class="w" id="w512">être</span> <span class="w" id="w513">des</span> <span class="w" id="w514">spécialistes</span>, <span class="w" id="w515">affirment</span> <span class="w" id="w516">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w517">autorité</span> <span class="w" id="w518">que</span> <span class="w" id="w519">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w520">serons</span> <span class="w" id="w521">retombés</span> <span class="w" id="w522">avant</span> <span class="w" id="w523">les</span> <span class="linked" id="174"><span class="w" id="w524">fortifications</span></span><span class="translation" id="46">.</span></span> <span id="s32"><span class="w" id="w525">Beaucoup</span> <span class="w" id="w526">d'autres</span> <span class="w" id="w527">choses</span> <span class="w" id="w528">encore</span> <span class="w" id="w529">sont</span> <span class="linked" id="175"><span class="w" id="w530">blâmées</span></span> <span class="w" id="w531">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w532">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w533">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w534">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w535">nouveau</span> <span class="w" id="w536">type</span> <span class="w" id="w537">que</span> <span class="w" id="w538">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w539">allons</span> <span class="w" id="w540">expérimenter</span> <span class="w" id="w541">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w542">tant</span> <span class="w" id="w543">de</span> <span class="w" id="w544">bonheur</span> <span class="w" id="w545">et</span> <span class="w" id="w546">de</span> <span class="w" id="w547">succès</span><span class="translation" id="47">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s33"><span class="w" id="w548">Il</span> <span class="w" id="w549">grossit</span> <span class="w" id="w550">toujours</span>, <span class="w" id="w551">lentement</span><span class="translation" id="48">.</span></span> <span id="s34"><span class="w" id="w552">On</span> <span class="w" id="w553">y</span> <span class="w" id="w554">découvre</span> <span class="w" id="w555">de</span> <span class="w" id="w556">petites</span> <span class="w" id="w557">déchirures</span> <span class="w" id="w558">faites</span> <span class="w" id="w559">pendant</span> <span class="w" id="w560">le</span> <span class="w" id="w561">transport</span><span class="translation" id="52">;</span></span> <span id="s35"><span class="w" id="w562">et</span> <span class="w" id="w563">on</span> <span class="w" id="w564">les</span> <span class="linked" id="195"><span class="w" id="w565">bouche</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w566">selon</span> <span class="w" id="w567">l'<span class="linked" id="236">usage</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w568">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w569">des</span> <span class="w" id="w570">morceaux</span> <span class="w" id="w571">de</span> <span class="linked" id="196"><span class="w" id="w572">journal</span></span> <span class="w" id="w573">appliqués</span> <span class="w" id="w574">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w575">la</span> <span class="w" id="w576">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w577">en</span> <span class="w" id="w578">les</span> <span class="w" id="w579">mouillant</span><span class="translation" id="53">.</span></span> <span id="s36"><span class="w" id="w580">Ce</span> <span class="w" id="w581">procédé</span> <span class="w" id="w582">d'obstruction</span> <span class="w" id="w583">inquiète</span> <span class="w" id="w584">et</span> <span class="linked" id="197"><span class="w" id="w585">émeut</span></span> <span class="w" id="w586">le</span> <span class="w" id="w587">public</span><span class="translation" id="49">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s37"><span class="w" id="w588">Pendant</span> <span class="w" id="w589">que</span> <span class="w" id="w590">le</span> <span class="w" id="w591">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w592">Jovis</span> <span class="w" id="w593">et</span> <span class="w" id="w594">son</span> <span class="w" id="w595">personnel</span> <span class="w" id="w596">s'occupent</span> <span class="w" id="w597">des</span> <span class="w" id="w598">derniers</span> <span class="w" id="w599">détails</span>, <span class="w" id="w600">les</span> <span class="w" id="w601">voyageurs</span> <span class="w" id="w602">vont</span> <span class="w" id="w603">dîner</span> <span class="w" id="w604">à</span> <span class="w" id="w605">la</span> <span class="linked" id="194"><span class="w" id="w606">cantine</span></span> <span class="w" id="w607">de</span> <span class="w" id="w608">l'usine</span> <span class="w" id="w609">à</span> <span class="w" id="w610">gaz</span>, <span class="w" id="w611">selon</span> <span class="w" id="w612">la</span> <span class="w" id="w613">coutume</span> <span class="w" id="w614">établie</span><span class="translation" id="54">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s38"><span class="w" id="w615">Quand</span> <span class="w" id="w616">nous</span> <span class="linked" id="199"><span class="w" id="w617">ressortons</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w618">l'aérostat</span> <span class="linked" id="198"><span class="w" id="w619">se</span> <span class="w" id="w620">balance</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w621">énorme</span> <span class="w" id="w622">et</span> <span class="w" id="w623">transparent</span>, <span class="linked" id="200"><span class="w" id="w624">prodigieux</span></span> <span class="w" id="w625">fruit</span> <span class="w" id="w626">d'or</span>, <span class="linked" id="201"><span class="w" id="w627">poire</span></span> <span class="w" id="w628">fantastique</span> <span class="w" id="w629">que</span> <span class="linked" id="202"><span class="w" id="w630">mûrissent</span></span> <span class="w" id="w631">encore</span>, <span class="w" id="w632">en</span> <span class="w" id="w633">la</span> <span class="w" id="w634">couvrant</span> <span class="w" id="w635">de</span> <span class="w" id="w636">feu</span>, <span class="w" id="w637">les</span> <span class="w" id="w638">derniers</span> <span class="linked" id="203"><span class="w" id="w639">rayons</span></span> <span class="w" id="w640">du</span> <span class="w" id="w641">soleil</span><span class="translation" id="55">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s39"><span class="w" id="w642">Voici</span> <span class="w" id="w643">qu'on</span> <span class="w" id="w644">attache</span> <span class="w" id="w645">la</span> <span class="w" id="w646">nacelle</span>, <span class="w" id="w647">qu'on</span> <span class="w" id="w648">apporte</span> <span class="w" id="w649">les</span> <span class="linked" id="204"><span class="w" id="w650">baromètres</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w651">la</span> <span class="linked" id="205"><span class="w" id="w652">sirène</span></span> <span class="w" id="w653">que</span> <span class="w" id="w654">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w655">ferons</span> <span class="linked" id="206"><span class="w" id="w656">gémir</span></span> <span class="w" id="w657">et</span> <span class="linked" id="207"><span class="w" id="w658">mugir</span></span> <span class="w" id="w659">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w660">la</span> <span class="w" id="w661">nuit</span>, <span class="w" id="w662">les</span> <span class="w" id="w663">deux</span> <span class="linked" id="208"><span class="w" id="w664">trompes</span></span> <span class="w" id="w665">aussi</span>, <span class="w" id="w666">et</span> <span class="w" id="w667">les</span> <span class="linked" id="209"><span class="w" id="w668">provisions</span> <span class="w" id="w669">de</span> <span class="w" id="w670">bouche</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w671">les</span> <span class="linked" id="210"><span class="w" id="w672">pardessus</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w673">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w674">le</span> <span class="w" id="w675">petit</span> <span class="w" id="w676">matériel</span> <span class="w" id="w677">que</span> <span class="w" id="w678">peut</span> <span class="w" id="w679">contenir</span>, <span class="w" id="w680">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w681">les</span> <span class="w" id="w682">hommes</span>, <span class="w" id="w683">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w684">panier</span> <span class="w" id="w685">volant</span><span class="translation" id="56">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s40"><span class="w" id="w686">Comme</span> <span class="w" id="w687">le</span> <span class="w" id="w688">vent</span> <span class="w" id="w689">pousse</span> <span class="w" id="w690">le</span> <span class="w" id="w691">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w692">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w693">les</span> <span class="w" id="w694">gazomètres</span>, <span class="w" id="w695">on</span> <span class="w" id="w696">doit</span> <span class="w" id="w697">à</span> <span class="w" id="w698">plusieurs</span> <span class="w" id="w699">reprises</span> <span class="w" id="w700">l'en</span> <span class="w" id="w701">éloigner</span> <span class="w" id="w702">pour</span> <span class="w" id="w703">éviter</span> <span class="w" id="w704">un</span> <span class="w" id="w705">accident</span> <span class="w" id="w706">au</span> <span class="w" id="w707">départ</span><span class="translation" id="57">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s41"><span class="w" id="w708">Tout</span> <span class="w" id="w709">à</span> <span class="w" id="w710">coup</span> <span class="w" id="w711">le</span> <span class="w" id="w712">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w713">Jovis</span> <span class="w" id="w714">appelle</span> <span class="w" id="w715">les</span> <span class="w" id="w716">passagers</span><span class="translation" id="58">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s42"><span class="w" id="w717">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w718">lieutenant</span> <span class="w" id="w719">Mallet</span> <span class="w" id="w720">grimpe</span> <span class="w" id="w721">d'abord</span> <span class="w" id="w722">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w723">le</span> <span class="w" id="w724">filet</span> <span class="w" id="w725">aérien</span> <span class="w" id="w726">entre</span> <span class="w" id="w727">la</span> <span class="w" id="w728">nacelle</span> <span class="w" id="w729">et</span> <span class="w" id="w730">l'aérostat</span>, <span class="w" id="w731">d'où</span> <span class="w" id="w732">il</span> <span class="w" id="w733">surveillera</span>, <span class="w" id="w734">durant</span> <span class="w" id="w735">toute</span> <span class="w" id="w736">la</span> <span class="w" id="w737">nuit</span>, <span class="w" id="w738">la</span> <span class="w" id="w739">marche</span> <span class="w" id="w740">du</span> <span class="w" id="w741">Horla</span> <span class="w" id="w742">à</span> <span class="w" id="w743">travers</span> <span class="w" id="w744">le</span> <span class="w" id="w745">ciel</span>, <span class="w" id="w746">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w747">l'<span class="linked" id="211">officier</span> <span class="w" id="w748">de</span> <span class="w" id="w749">quart</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w750">debout</span> <span class="w" id="w751">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w752">la</span> <span class="linked" id="212"><span class="w" id="w753">passerelle</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w754">surveille</span> <span class="w" id="w755">la</span> <span class="w" id="w756">marche</span> <span class="w" id="w757">du</span> <span class="w" id="w758">navire</span><span class="translation" id="59">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s43"><span class="w" id="w759">M</span>.</span> <span id="s44"><span class="w" id="w760">Etienne</span> <span class="w" id="w761">Beer</span> <span class="w" id="w762">monte</span> <span class="w" id="w763">ensuite</span>, <span class="w" id="w764">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w765">M</span>.</span> <span id="s45"><span class="w" id="w766">Paul</span> <span class="w" id="w767">Bessand</span>, <span class="w" id="w768">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w769">M</span>.</span> <span id="s46"><span class="w" id="w770">Patrice</span> <span class="w" id="w771">Eyriès</span>, <span class="w" id="w772">et</span> <span class="w" id="w773">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w774">moi</span><span class="translation" id="60">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s47"><span class="w" id="w775">Mais</span> <span class="w" id="w776">l'aérostat</span> <span class="w" id="w777">est</span> <span class="w" id="w778">trop</span> <span class="linked" id="213"><span class="w" id="w779">chargé</span></span> <span class="w" id="w780">pour</span> <span class="w" id="w781">la</span> <span class="w" id="w782">longue</span> <span class="w" id="w783">traversée</span> <span class="w" id="w784">que</span> <span class="w" id="w785">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w786">devons</span> <span class="linked" id="214"><span class="w" id="w787">entreprendre</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w788">et</span> <span class="w" id="w789">M</span>.</span> <span id="s48"><span class="w" id="w790">Eyriès</span> <span class="w" id="w791">doit</span>, <span class="w" id="w792">non</span> <span class="w" id="w793">sans</span> <span class="w" id="w794">grand</span> <span class="w" id="w795">regret</span>, <span class="w" id="w796">quitter</span> <span class="w" id="w797">sa</span> <span class="w" id="w798">place</span><span class="translation" id="61">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s49"><span class="w" id="w799">M</span>.</span> <span id="s50"><span class="w" id="w800">Jovis</span>, <span class="w" id="w801">debout</span> <span class="w" id="w802">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w803">le</span> <span class="w" id="w804">bord</span> <span class="w" id="w805">de</span> <span class="w" id="w806">la</span> <span class="w" id="w807">nacelle</span>, <span class="linked" id="215"><span class="w" id="w808">prie</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w809">en</span> <span class="w" id="w810">termes</span> <span class="w" id="w811">fort</span> <span class="w" id="w812">galants</span>, <span class="w" id="w813">les</span> <span class="w" id="w814">dames</span> <span class="w" id="w815">de</span> <span class="linked" id="216"><span class="w" id="w816">s'écarter</span></span> <span class="w" id="w817">un</span> <span class="w" id="w818">peu</span>, <span class="w" id="w819">car</span> <span class="w" id="w820">il</span> <span class="w" id="w821">craint</span>, <span class="w" id="w822">en</span> <span class="w" id="w823">s'élevant</span>, <span class="w" id="w824">de</span> <span class="w" id="w825">jeter</span> <span class="w" id="w826">du</span> <span class="w" id="w827">sable</span> <span class="w" id="w828">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w829">leurs</span> <span class="w" id="w830">chapeaux</span><span class="translation" id="62">;</span></span> <span id="s51"><span class="w" id="w831">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w832">il</span> <span class="linked" id="238"><span class="w" id="w833">commande</span></span><span class="w" id="w834">: 'Lâchez-tout</span><span class="translation" id="63">!</span></span> <span id="s52"><span class="w" id="w835">' et</span> <span class="linked" id="217"><span class="w" id="w836">tranchant</span></span> <span class="w" id="w837">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w838">coup</span> <span class="w" id="w839">de</span> <span class="w" id="w840">couteau</span> <span class="w" id="w841">les</span> <span class="linked" id="218"><span class="w" id="w842">cordes</span></span> <span class="w" id="w843">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w844">suspendent</span> <span class="w" id="w845">autour</span> <span class="w" id="w846">de</span> <span class="w" id="w847">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w848">le</span> <span class="linked" id="129"></span><span class="linked" id="128"><span class="w" id="w849">lest</span></span> <span class="w" id="w850">accessoire</span> <span class="w" id="w851">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w852">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w853">retient</span> <span class="w" id="w854">à</span> <span class="w" id="w855">terre</span><span class="translation" id="65">;</span></span> <span id="s53"><span class="w" id="w856">il</span> <span class="w" id="w857">donne</span> <span class="w" id="w858">au</span> <span class="w" id="w859">Horla</span> <span class="w" id="w860">sa</span> <span class="w" id="w861">liberté</span><span class="translation" id="64">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s54"><span class="w" id="w862">En</span> <span class="w" id="w863">une</span> <span class="w" id="w864">seconde</span> <span class="w" id="w865">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w866">sommes</span> <span class="w" id="w867">partis</span><span class="translation" id="66">.</span></span> <span id="s55"><span class="w" id="w868">On</span> <span class="w" id="w869">ne</span> <span class="w" id="w870">sent</span> <span class="w" id="w871">rien</span><span class="translation" id="67">;</span></span> <span id="s56"><span class="w" id="w872">on</span> <span class="w" id="w873">flotte</span>, <span class="w" id="w874">on</span> <span class="w" id="w875">monte</span>, <span class="w" id="w876">on</span> <span class="w" id="w877">vole</span>, <span class="w" id="w878">on</span> <span class="linked" id="223"><span class="w" id="w879">plane</span></span><span class="translation" id="68">.</span></span> <span id="s57"><span class="w" id="w880">Nos</span> <span class="w" id="w881">amis</span> <span class="w" id="w882">crient</span> <span class="w" id="w883">et</span> <span class="w" id="w884">applaudissent</span>, <span class="w" id="w885">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w886">ne</span> <span class="w" id="w887">les</span> <span class="w" id="w888">entendons</span> <span class="w" id="w889">presque</span> <span class="w" id="w890">plus</span><span class="translation" id="69">;</span></span> <span id="s58"><span class="w" id="w891">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w892">ne</span> <span class="w" id="w893">les</span> <span class="w" id="w894">voyons</span> <span class="w" id="w895">qu'à</span> <span class="w" id="w896">peine</span><span class="translation" id="70">.</span></span> <span id="s59"><span class="w" id="w897">Nous</span> <span class="w" id="w898">sommes</span> <span class="w" id="w899">déjà</span> <span class="w" id="w900">si</span> <span class="w" id="w901">loin</span>!</span> <span id="s60"><span class="w" id="w902">si</span> <span class="w" id="w903">haut</span><span class="translation" id="71">!</span></span> <span id="s61"><span class="w" id="w904">Quoi</span><span class="translation" id="72">!</span></span> <span id="s62"><span class="w" id="w905">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w906">venons</span> <span class="w" id="w907">de</span> <span class="w" id="w908">quitter</span> <span class="w" id="w909">ces</span> <span class="w" id="w910">gens</span> <span class="w" id="w911">là-bas</span><span class="translation" id="73">?</span></span> <span id="s63"><span class="w" id="w912">Est-ce</span> <span class="w" id="w913">possible</span><span class="translation" id="74">?</span></span> <span id="s64"><span class="w" id="w914">Sous</span> <span class="w" id="w915">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w916">maintenant</span>, <span class="w" id="w917">Paris</span> <span class="w" id="w918">s'<span class="linked" id="224">étale</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w919">une</span> <span class="w" id="w920">plaque</span> <span class="w" id="w921">sombre</span>, <span class="linked" id="225"><span class="w" id="w922">bleuâtre</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="226"><span class="w" id="w923">hachée</span></span> <span class="w" id="w924">par</span> <span class="w" id="w925">les</span> <span class="w" id="w926">rues</span>, <span class="w" id="w927">et</span> <span class="w" id="w928">d'où</span> <span class="w" id="w929">s'élancent</span> <span class="w" id="w930">de</span> <span class="w" id="w931">place</span> <span class="w" id="w932">en</span> <span class="w" id="w933">place</span>, <span class="w" id="w934">des</span> <span class="w" id="w935">dômes</span>, <span class="w" id="w936">des</span> <span class="w" id="w937">tours</span>, <span class="w" id="w938">des</span> <span class="w" id="w939">flèches</span><span class="translation" id="75">;</span></span> <span id="s65"><span class="w" id="w940">puis</span>, <span class="w" id="w941">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w942">autour</span>, <span class="w" id="w943">la</span> <span class="w" id="w944">plaine</span>, <span class="w" id="w945">la</span> <span class="w" id="w946">terre</span> <span class="w" id="w947">que</span> <span class="w" id="w948">découpent</span> <span class="w" id="w949">les</span> <span class="w" id="w950">routes</span> <span class="w" id="w951">longues</span>, <span class="w" id="w952">minces</span> <span class="w" id="w953">et</span> <span class="w" id="w954">blanches</span> <span class="w" id="w955">au</span> <span class="w" id="w956">milieu</span> <span class="w" id="w957">des</span> <span class="w" id="w958">champs</span> <span class="w" id="w959">verts</span>, <span class="w" id="w960">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w961">vert</span> <span class="w" id="w962">tendre</span> <span class="w" id="w963">ou</span> <span class="w" id="w964">foncé</span>, <span class="w" id="w965">et</span> <span class="w" id="w966">des</span> <span class="w" id="w967">bois</span> <span class="w" id="w968">presque</span> <span class="w" id="w969">noirs</span><span class="translation" id="76">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s66"><span class="w" id="w970">La</span> <span class="w" id="w971">Seine</span> <span class="w" id="w972">semble</span> <span class="w" id="w973">un</span> <span class="w" id="w974">gros</span> <span class="w" id="w975">serpent</span> <span class="w" id="w976">roulé</span>, <span class="w" id="w977">couché</span> <span class="w" id="w978">immobile</span>, <span class="w" id="w979">dont</span> <span class="w" id="w980">on</span> <span class="w" id="w981">n'aperçoit</span> <span class="w" id="w982">ni</span> <span class="w" id="w983">la</span> <span class="w" id="w984">tête</span> <span class="w" id="w985">ni</span> <span class="w" id="w986">la</span> <span class="w" id="w987">queue</span><span class="translation" id="77">;</span></span> <span id="s67"><span class="w" id="w988">elle</span> <span class="w" id="w989">vient</span> <span class="w" id="w990">de</span> <span class="w" id="w991">là-bas</span>, <span class="w" id="w992">elle</span> <span class="w" id="w993">s'en</span> <span class="w" id="w994">va</span> <span class="w" id="w995">là-bas</span>, <span class="w" id="w996">en</span> <span class="w" id="w997">traversant</span> <span class="w" id="w998">Paris</span>, <span class="w" id="w999">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1000">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1001">terre</span> <span class="w" id="w1002">entière</span> <span class="w" id="w1003">a</span> <span class="w" id="w1004">l'air</span> <span class="w" id="w1005">d'une</span> <span class="w" id="w1006">immense</span> <span class="linked" id="227"><span class="w" id="w1007">cuvette</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1008">de</span> <span class="linked" id="228"><span class="w" id="w1009">prés</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1010">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1011">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1012">forêts</span> <span class="w" id="w1013">qu'enferme</span> <span class="w" id="w1014">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1015">l'horizon</span> <span class="w" id="w1016">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1017">montagne</span> <span class="w" id="w1018">basse</span>, <span class="w" id="w1019">lointaine</span> <span class="w" id="w1020">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1021">circulaire</span><span class="translation" id="78">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s68"><span class="w" id="w1022">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w1023">soleil</span> <span class="w" id="w1024">qu'on</span> <span class="w" id="w1025">n'apercevait</span> <span class="w" id="w1026">plus</span> <span class="w" id="w1027">d'en</span> <span class="w" id="w1028">bas</span> <span class="w" id="w1029">reparaît</span> <span class="w" id="w1030">pour</span> <span class="w" id="w1031">nous</span>, <span class="w" id="w1032">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w1033">s'il</span> <span class="w" id="w1034">se</span> <span class="w" id="w1035">levait</span> <span class="w" id="w1036">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1037">nouveau</span>, <span class="w" id="w1038">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1039">notre</span> <span class="w" id="w1040">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w1041">lui-même</span> <span class="w" id="w1042">s'allume</span> <span class="w" id="w1043">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1044">cette</span> <span class="w" id="w1045">clarté</span><span class="translation" id="79">;</span></span> <span id="s69"><span class="w" id="w1046">il</span> <span class="w" id="w1047">doit</span> <span class="w" id="w1048">paraître</span> <span class="w" id="w1049">un</span> <span class="linked" id="220"><span class="w" id="w1050">astre</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1051">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1052">ceux</span> <span class="w" id="w1053">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1054">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1055">regardent</span><span class="translation" id="80">.</span></span> <span id="s70"><span class="w" id="w1056">M</span>.</span> <span id="s71"><span class="w" id="w1057">Mallet</span>, <span class="w" id="w1058">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1059">seconde</span> <span class="w" id="w1060">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1061">seconde</span>, <span class="w" id="w1062">jette</span> <span class="w" id="w1063">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1064">le</span> <span class="linked" id="221"><span class="w" id="w1065">vide</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1066">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1067">feuille</span> <span class="w" id="w1068">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1069">papier</span> <span class="w" id="w1070">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1071">cigarettes</span> <span class="w" id="w1072">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1073">dit</span> <span class="w" id="w1074">tranquillement<span class="linked" id="81">:</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1075">'Nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1076">montons</span>, <span class="w" id="w1077">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1078">montons</span> <span class="w" id="w1079">toujours'</span>, <span class="w" id="w1080">tandis</span> <span class="w" id="w1081">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1082">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1083">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w1084">Jovis</span>, <span class="w" id="w1085">rayonnant</span> <span class="w" id="w1086">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1087">joie</span>, <span class="w" id="w1088">se</span> <span class="linked" id="222"><span class="w" id="w1089">frotte</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1090">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1091">mains</span> <span class="w" id="w1092">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1093">répétant<span class="linked" id="82">:</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1094">'Hein</span><span class="translation" id="83">?</span></span> <span id="s72"><span class="w" id="w1095">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1096">vernis</span>, <span class="w" id="w1097">hein</span><span class="translation" id="84">!</span></span> <span id="s73"><span class="w" id="w1098">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1099">vernis</span><span class="translation" id="85">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s74"><span class="w" id="w1100">'On</span> <span class="w" id="w1101">ne</span> <span class="w" id="w1102">peut</span>, <span class="w" id="w1103">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1104">effet</span>, <span class="w" id="w1105">apprécier</span> <span class="w" id="w1106">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1107">montées</span> <span class="w" id="w1108">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1109">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1110">descentes</span> <span class="w" id="w1111">qu'en</span> <span class="w" id="w1112">jetant</span> <span class="w" id="w1113">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1114">temps</span> <span class="w" id="w1115">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1116">temps</span> <span class="w" id="w1117">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1118">feuille</span> <span class="w" id="w1119">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1120">papier</span> <span class="w" id="w1121">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1122">cigarettes</span><span class="translation" id="86">.</span></span> <span id="s75"><span class="w" id="w1123">Si</span> <span class="w" id="w1124">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1125">papier</span>, <span class="w" id="w1126">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="193"><span class="w" id="w1127">demeure</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1128">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1129">réalité</span>, <span class="w" id="w1130">suspendu</span> <span class="w" id="w1131">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1132">l'air</span>, <span class="w" id="w1133">semble</span> <span class="w" id="w1134">tomber</span> <span class="w" id="w1135">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w1136">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1137">pierre</span>, <span class="w" id="w1138">c'est</span> <span class="w" id="w1139">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1140">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1141">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w1142">monte</span><span class="translation" id="87">;</span></span> <span id="s76"><span class="w" id="w1143">s'il</span> <span class="w" id="w1144">semble</span> <span class="w" id="w1145">au</span> <span class="w" id="w1146">contraire</span> <span class="w" id="w1147">s'envoler</span> <span class="w" id="w1148">au</span> <span class="w" id="w1149">ciel</span>, <span class="w" id="w1150">c'est</span> <span class="w" id="w1151">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1152">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1153">ballon</span> <span class="w" id="w1154">descend</span><span class="translation" id="88">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s77"><span class="w" id="w1155">Les</span> <span class="w" id="w1156">deux</span> <span class="w" id="w1157">baromètres</span> <span class="w" id="w1158">indiquent</span> <span class="w" id="w1159">cinq</span> <span class="w" id="w1160">cents</span> <span class="w" id="w1161">mètres</span> <span class="w" id="w1162">environ</span>, <span class="w" id="w1163">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1164">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1165">regardons</span>, <span class="w" id="w1166">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w1167">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1168">admiration</span> <span class="w" id="w1169">enthousiaste</span>, <span class="w" id="w1170">cette</span> <span class="w" id="w1171">terre</span> <span class="w" id="w1172">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1173">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1174">quittons</span>, <span class="w" id="w1175">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1176">laquelle</span> <span class="w" id="w1177">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1178">ne</span> <span class="w" id="w1179">tenons</span> <span class="w" id="w1180">plus</span> <span class="w" id="w1181">par</span> <span class="w" id="w1182">rien</span> <span class="w" id="w1183">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1184">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1185">a</span> <span class="w" id="w1186">l'air</span> <span class="w" id="w1187">d'une</span> <span class="linked" id="219"><span class="w" id="w1188">carte</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1189">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1190">géographie</span> <span class="w" id="w1191">peinte</span>, <span class="w" id="w1192">d'un</span> <span class="w" id="w1193">plan</span> <span class="w" id="w1194">démesuré</span> <span class="w" id="w1195">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1196">province</span><span class="translation" id="89">.</span></span> <span id="s78"><span class="w" id="w1197">Toutes</span> <span class="w" id="w1198">ses</span> <span class="linked" id="187"><span class="w" id="w1199">rumeurs</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1200">cependant</span> <span class="w" id="w1201">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1202">arrivent</span> <span class="w" id="w1203">distinctes</span>, <span class="w" id="w1204">étrangement</span> <span class="w" id="w1205">reconnaissables</span><span class="translation" id="90">.</span></span> <span id="s79"><span class="w" id="w1206">On</span> <span class="w" id="w1207">entend</span> <span class="w" id="w1208">surtout</span> <span class="w" id="w1209">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1210">bruit</span> <span class="w" id="w1211">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1212">roues</span> <span class="w" id="w1213">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1214">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1215">routes</span>, <span class="w" id="w1216">le</span> <span class="linked" id="188"><span class="w" id="w1217">claquement</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1218">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1219">fouets</span>, <span class="w" id="w1220">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1221">'hue'</span> <span class="w" id="w1222">des</span> <span class="linked" id="189"><span class="w" id="w1223">charretier</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1224">le</span> <span class="linked" id="190"><span class="w" id="w1225">roulement</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1226">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1227">le</span> <span class="linked" id="191"><span class="w" id="w1228">sifflement</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1229">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1230">trains</span>, <span class="w" id="w1231">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1232">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1233">rires</span> <span class="w" id="w1234">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1235">gamins</span> <span class="w" id="w1236">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1237">courent</span> <span class="w" id="w1238">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1239">jouent</span> <span class="w" id="w1240">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1241">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1242">places</span><span class="translation" id="91">.</span></span> <span id="s80"><span class="w" id="w1243">Chaque</span> <span class="w" id="w1244">fois</span> <span class="w" id="w1245">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1246">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1247">passons</span> <span class="w" id="w1248">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1249">un</span> <span class="w" id="w1250">village</span>, <span class="w" id="w1251">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1252">sont</span> <span class="w" id="w1253">des</span> <span class="linked" id="192"><span class="w" id="w1254">clameurs</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1255">enfantines</span> <span class="w" id="w1256">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1257">dominent</span> <span class="w" id="w1258">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w1259">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1260">montent</span> <span class="w" id="w1261">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1262">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1263">ciel</span> <span class="w" id="w1264">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w1265">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1266">plus</span> <span class="w" id="w1267">d'acuité</span><span class="translation" id="92">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s81"><span class="w" id="w1268">Des</span> <span class="w" id="w1269">hommes</span> <span class="w" id="w1270">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1271">appellent</span><span class="translation" id="93">;</span></span> <span id="s82"><span class="w" id="w1272">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1273">locomotives</span> <span class="w" id="w1274">sifflent</span><span class="translation" id="94">;</span></span> <span id="s83"><span class="w" id="w1275">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1276">répondons</span> <span class="w" id="w1277">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w1278">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1279">sirène</span> <span class="w" id="w1280">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="186"><span class="w" id="w1281">pousse</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1282">des</span> <span class="linked" id="183"><span class="w" id="w1283">gémissements</span></span> <span class="linked" id="184"><span class="w" id="w1284">plaintifs</span></span>, <span class="linked" id="185"><span class="w" id="w1285">affreux</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1286">maigres</span>, <span class="w" id="w1287">vraie</span> <span class="w" id="w1288">voix</span> <span class="w" id="w1289">d'être</span> <span class="w" id="w1290">fantastique</span> <span class="w" id="w1291">errant</span> <span class="w" id="w1292">autour</span> <span class="w" id="w1293">du</span> <span class="w" id="w1294">monde</span><span class="translation" id="95">;</span></span> </p><p><span id="s84"><span class="w" id="w1295">Des</span> <span class="w" id="w1296">lumières</span> <span class="w" id="w1297">s'allument</span> <span class="w" id="w1298">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1299">place</span> <span class="w" id="w1300">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1301">place</span>, <span class="w" id="w1302">feux</span> <span class="w" id="w1303">isolés</span> <span class="w" id="w1304">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1305">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1306">fermes</span>, <span class="linked" id="178"><span class="w" id="w1307">chapelet</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1308">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1309">gaz</span> <span class="w" id="w1310">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1311">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1312">villes</span><span class="translation" id="96">.</span></span> <span id="s85"><span class="w" id="w1313">Nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1314">allons</span> <span class="w" id="w1315">vers</span> <span class="w" id="w1316">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1317">nord-ouest</span> <span class="w" id="w1318">après</span> <span class="w" id="w1319">avoir</span> <span class="w" id="w1320">plané</span> <span class="w" id="w1321">longtemps</span> <span class="w" id="w1322">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1323">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1324">petit</span> <span class="w" id="w1325">lac</span> <span class="w" id="w1326">d'Enghien</span><span class="translation" id="97">.</span></span> <span id="s86"><span class="w" id="w1327">Une</span> <span class="linked" id="179"><span class="w" id="w1328">rivière</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1329">apparaît:</span> <span class="w" id="w1330">c'est</span> <span class="w" id="w1331">l'Oise</span><span class="translation" id="98">.</span></span> <span id="s87"><span class="w" id="w1332">Alors</span> <span class="w" id="w1333">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1334">discutons</span> <span class="w" id="w1335">pour</span> <span class="w" id="w1336">savoir</span> <span class="w" id="w1337">où</span> <span class="w" id="w1338">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1339">sommes</span><span class="translation" id="99">.</span></span> <span id="s88"><span class="w" id="w1340">Cette</span> <span class="w" id="w1341">ville</span> <span class="w" id="w1342">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="237"><span class="w" id="w1343">brille</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1344">là-bas</span>, <span class="w" id="w1345">est-ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1346">Creil</span> <span class="w" id="w1347">ou</span> <span class="w" id="w1348">Pontoise</span><span class="translation" id="100">?</span></span> <span id="s89"><span class="w" id="w1349">Si</span> <span class="w" id="w1350">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1351">étions</span> <span class="w" id="w1352">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1353">Pontoise</span>, <span class="w" id="w1354">on</span> <span class="w" id="w1355">verrait</span> <span class="w" id="w1356">semble-t-il</span> <span class="w" id="w1357">la</span> <span class="linked" id="181"><span class="w" id="w1358">jonction</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1359">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1360">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1361">Seine</span> <span class="w" id="w1362">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1363">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1364">l'Oise</span><span class="translation" id="102">;</span></span> <span id="s90"><span class="w" id="w1365">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1366">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w1367">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1368">feu</span>, <span class="w" id="w1369">cet</span> <span class="w" id="w1370">énorme</span> <span class="w" id="w1371">feu</span> <span class="w" id="w1372">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1373">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1374">gauche</span>, <span class="w" id="w1375">n'est-ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1376">pas</span> <span class="w" id="w1377">le</span> <span class="linked" id="180"><span class="w" id="w1378">haut</span> <span class="w" id="w1379">fourneau</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1380">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1381">Montataire</span><span class="translation" id="101">?</span></span> </p><p><span id="s91"><span class="w" id="w1382">Nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1383">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1384">trouvons</span> <span class="w" id="w1385">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1386">vérité</span> <span class="w" id="w1387">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1388">Creil</span><span class="translation" id="103">.</span></span> <span id="s92"><span class="w" id="w1389">Le</span> <span class="w" id="w1390">spectacle</span> <span class="w" id="w1391">est</span> <span class="w" id="w1392">surprenant</span><span class="translation" id="104">;</span></span> <span id="s93"><span class="w" id="w1393">sur</span> <span class="w" id="w1394">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1395">terre</span>, <span class="w" id="w1396">il</span> <span class="w" id="w1397">fait</span> <span class="w" id="w1398">nuit</span> <span class="w" id="w1399">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1400">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1401">sommes</span> <span class="w" id="w1402">encore</span> <span class="w" id="w1403">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1404">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1405">lumière</span>, <span class="w" id="w1406">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1407">dix</span> <span class="w" id="w1408">heures</span> <span class="w" id="w1409">passées</span><span class="translation" id="105">.</span></span> <span id="s94"><span class="w" id="w1410">Maintenant</span> <span class="w" id="w1411">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1412">entendons</span> <span class="w" id="w1413">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1414">bruits</span> <span class="w" id="w1415">légers</span> <span class="w" id="w1416">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1417">champs</span>, <span class="w" id="w1418">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1419">double</span> <span class="w" id="w1420">cri</span> <span class="w" id="w1421">des</span> <span class="linked" id="231"><span class="w" id="w1422">cailles</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1423">surtout</span>, <span class="w" id="w1424">puis</span> <span class="w" id="w1425">les</span> <span class="linked" id="229"><span class="w" id="w1426">miaulements</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1427">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1428">chats</span> <span class="w" id="w1429">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1430">les</span> <span class="linked" id="230"><span class="w" id="w1431">hurlements</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1432">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1433">chiens</span><span class="translation" id="106">.</span></span> <span id="s95"><span class="w" id="w1434">Certes</span>, <span class="w" id="w1435">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1436">chiens</span> <span class="linked" id="232"><span class="w" id="w1437">sentent</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1438">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1439">ballon</span>, <span class="w" id="w1440">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1441">voient</span> <span class="w" id="w1442">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1443">donnent</span> <span class="w" id="w1444">l'alarme</span><span class="translation" id="107">.</span></span> <span id="s96"><span class="w" id="w1445">On</span> <span class="w" id="w1446">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1447">entend</span>, <span class="w" id="w1448">par</span> <span class="w" id="w1449">toute</span> <span class="w" id="w1450">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1451">plaine</span>, <span class="w" id="w1452">aboyer</span> <span class="w" id="w1453">contre</span> <span class="w" id="w1454">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1455">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1456">gémir</span>, <span class="w" id="w1457">comme</span> <span class="w" id="w1458">ils</span> <span class="w" id="w1459">gémissent</span> <span class="w" id="w1460">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1461">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1462">lune</span><span class="translation" id="108">.</span></span> <span id="s97"><span class="w" id="w1463">Les</span> <span class="w" id="w1464">boeuf</span> <span class="w" id="w1465">aussi</span> <span class="w" id="w1466">semblent</span> <span class="w" id="w1467">se</span> <span class="w" id="w1468">réveiller</span> <span class="w" id="w1469">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1470">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1471">étables</span>, <span class="w" id="w1472">car</span> <span class="w" id="w1473">ils</span> <span class="w" id="w1474">mugissent</span><span class="translation" id="109">;</span></span> <span id="s98"><span class="w" id="w1475">toutes</span> <span class="w" id="w1476">les</span> <span class="w" id="w1477">bêtes</span> <span class="w" id="w1478">effrayées</span> <span class="w" id="w1479">s'émeuvent</span> <span class="w" id="w1480">devant</span> <span class="w" id="w1481">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1482">monstre</span> <span class="w" id="w1483">aérien</span> <span class="w" id="w1484">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1485">passe</span><span class="translation" id="110">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s99"><span class="w" id="w1486">Et</span> <span class="w" id="w1487">les</span> <span class="linked" id="117"><span class="w" id="w1488">odeurs</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1489">du</span> <span class="w" id="w1490">sol</span> <span class="w" id="w1491">montent</span> <span class="w" id="w1492">vers</span> <span class="w" id="w1493">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1494">délicieuses</span>, <span class="w" id="w1495">odeurs</span> <span class="w" id="w1496">des</span> <span class="linked" id="116"><span class="w" id="w1497">foins</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1498">des</span> <span class="w" id="w1499">fleurs</span>, <span class="w" id="w1500">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1501">la</span> <span class="w" id="w1502">terre</span> <span class="w" id="w1503">verte</span> <span class="w" id="w1504">et</span> <span class="linked" id="177"><span class="w" id="w1505">mouillée</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1506">parfumant</span> <span class="w" id="w1507">l'air</span>, <span class="w" id="w1508">un</span> <span class="w" id="w1509">air</span> <span class="w" id="w1510">léger</span>, <span class="w" id="w1511">si</span> <span class="w" id="w1512">léger</span>, <span class="w" id="w1513">si</span> <span class="w" id="w1514">doux</span>, <span class="w" id="w1515">si</span> <span class="w" id="w1516">savoureux</span> <span class="w" id="w1517">que</span> <span class="w" id="w1518">jamais</span> <span class="w" id="w1519">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1520">ma</span> <span class="w" id="w1521">vie</span> <span class="w" id="w1522">je</span> <span class="w" id="w1523">n'avais</span> <span class="w" id="w1524">respiré</span> <span class="w" id="w1525">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w1526">tant</span> <span class="w" id="w1527">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1528">bonheur</span><span class="translation" id="111">.</span></span> <span id="s100"><span class="w" id="w1529">Un</span> <span class="linked" id="124"><span class="w" id="w1530">bien-être</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1531">profond</span>, <span class="w" id="w1532">inconnu</span>, <span class="w" id="w1533">m'envahit</span>, <span class="w" id="w1534">bien-être</span> <span class="w" id="w1535">du</span> <span class="w" id="w1536">corps</span> <span class="w" id="w1537">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1538">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1539">l'esprit</span>, <span class="linked" id="118"><span class="w" id="w1540">fait</span> <span class="w" id="w1541">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1542">nonchalance</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1543">de</span> <span class="linked" id="119"><span class="w" id="w1544">repos</span></span> <span class="linked" id="120"><span class="w" id="w1545">infini</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1546">d'<span class="linked" id="121">oubli</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1547">d'indifférence</span> <span class="w" id="w1548">à</span> <span class="w" id="w1549">tout</span> <span class="w" id="w1550">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1551">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1552">cette</span> <span class="w" id="w1553">sensation</span> <span class="w" id="w1554">nouvelle</span> <span class="w" id="w1555">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1556">traverser</span> <span class="w" id="w1557">l'espace</span> <span class="w" id="w1558">sans</span> <span class="w" id="w1559">rien</span> <span class="w" id="w1560">sentir</span> <span class="w" id="w1561">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1562">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1563">qui</span> <span class="w" id="w1564">rend</span> <span class="w" id="w1565">insupportable</span> <span class="w" id="w1566">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1567">mouvement</span>, <span class="w" id="w1568">sans</span> <span class="w" id="w1569">bruit</span>, <span class="w" id="w1570">sans</span> <span class="linked" id="122"><span class="w" id="w1571">secousses</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1572">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1573">sans</span> <span class="linked" id="123"><span class="w" id="w1574">trépidations</span></span><span class="translation" id="112">.</span></span> </p><p><span id="s101"><span class="linked" id="125"><span class="w" id="w1575">Tantôt</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1576">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1577">montons</span> <span class="w" id="w1578">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1579">tantôt</span> <span class="w" id="w1580">nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1581">descendons</span><span class="translation" id="113">.</span></span> <span id="s102"><span class="w" id="w1582">De</span> <span class="w" id="w1583">minute</span> <span class="w" id="w1584">en</span> <span class="w" id="w1585">minute</span>, <span class="w" id="w1586">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1587">lieutenant</span> <span class="w" id="w1588">Mallet</span>, <span class="w" id="w1589">suspendu</span> <span class="w" id="w1590">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1591">sa</span> <span class="linked" id="176"><span class="w" id="w1592">toile</span> <span class="w" id="w1593">d'araignée</span></span>, <span class="w" id="w1594">dit</span> <span class="w" id="w1595">au</span> <span class="w" id="w1596">capitaine</span> <span class="w" id="w1597">Jovis:</span> <span class="w" id="w1598">'Nous</span> <span class="w" id="w1599">descendons</span>, <span class="w" id="w1600">jetez</span> <span class="w" id="w1601">une</span> <span class="w" id="w1602">demi-poignée</span><span class="translation" id="114">.</span></span> <span id="s103"><span class="w" id="w1603">' Et</span> <span class="w" id="w1604">le</span> <span class="w" id="w1605">capitaine</span>, <span class="w" id="w1606">qui</span> <span class="linked" id="126"><span class="w" id="w1607">cause</span></span> <span class="w" id="w1608">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1609">rit</span> <span class="w" id="w1610">avec</span> <span class="w" id="w1611">nous</span>, <span class="w" id="w1612">un</span> <span class="w" id="w1613">sac</span> <span class="w" id="w1614">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1615">lest</span> <span class="w" id="w1616">entre</span> <span class="w" id="w1617">ses</span> <span class="w" id="w1618">genoux</span>, <span class="w" id="w1619">prend</span> <span class="w" id="w1620">dans</span> <span class="w" id="w1621">ce</span> <span class="w" id="w1622">sac</span> <span class="w" id="w1623">un</span> <span class="w" id="w1624">peu</span> <span class="w" id="w1625">de</span> <span class="w" id="w1626">sable</span> <span class="w" id="w1627">et</span> <span class="w" id="w1628">le</span> <span class="linked" id="127"><span class="w" id="w1629">jette</span> <span class="w" id="w1630">par-dessus</span> <span class="w" id="w1631">bord</span></span><span class="translation" id="115">.</span></span> </p><div id="context_menu" style="position: absolute; left: 541px; top: 2052px; display: block; visibility: hidden; "><ul><li><a href="javascript:parent.deleteDiv()">Remove Definition</a></li></ul></div><div id="counter">238</div><div id="d1" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 36px; display: none; ">I had received, during the morning of July 8, the following telegram: nice weather.</div><div id="d2" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 721px; left: 513px; top: 36px; display: none; ">My predictions still.</div><div id="d3" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 551px; left: 683px; top: 36px; display: none; ">Belgium frontier.</div><div id="d4" class="pop_up" style="left: 1150px; top: 33px; display: none; ">headquarters</div><div id="d5" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 430px; left: 804px; top: 36px; display: none; ">Departure of material and personnel at noon, at the headquarters.</div><div id="d6" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 69px; display: none; ">Beginning of maneuvers at three o'clock.</div><div id="d7" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 903px; left: 331px; top: 69px; display: none; ">Therefore I wait for you at the factory beginning at five o'clock.</div><div id="d8" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 538px; left: 696px; top: 69px; display: none; ">JOVIS.</div><div id="d9" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 118px; display: none; ">At five o'clock exactly, I was entering the gas factory of La Villette.</div><div id="d10" class="pop_up" style="left: 516px; top: 105px; display: none; "><b>ruine&nbsp;</b>ruin</div><div id="d11" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 822px; left: 412px; top: 118px; display: none; ">One would say (it seems like) the colossal ruins of a city of Cyclopes.</div><div id="d12" class="pop_up" style="left: 1109px; top: 115px; display: none; "><b>gazomètre </b>gas meter</div><div id="d13" class="pop_up" style="left: 255px; top: 147px; display: none; ">columns</div><div id="d14" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 488px; left: 746px; top: 151px; display: none; ">Enormous and dark avenues open up between heavy gas meters lined up one behind the other, similar to monstrous columns, truncated, unequally high and that carried without doubt, at another time, some scary structure of iron.</div><div id="d15" class="pop_up" style="left: 184px; top: 198px; display: none; "><b>gésir</b> to lie</div><div id="d16" class="pop_up" style="left: 322px; top: 191px; display: none; "> cake</div><div id="d17" class="pop_up" style="left: 475px; top: 191px; display: none; "><b>aplatir</b> to flatten</div><div id="d18" class="pop_up" style="left: 593px; top: 191px; display: none; ">net</div><div id="d19" class="pop_up" style="left: 397px; top: 197px; display: none; "> canvas</div><div id="d20" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 200px; display: none; ">In the entry courtyard, lies the balloon, a large cake of yellow fabric, flattened on the ground, under a net.</div><div id="d21" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 385px; left: 849px; top: 200px; display: none; ">&nbsp;and it appears, in fact, like a vast fish, caught and dead.</div><div id="d22" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 281px; display: none; ">Two or three hundred people look at it, sitting or standing, or instead examine the gondola, a pretty square basket, a basket the color of human flesh that carries on its side, in golden letters, on a black mahogany plaque: Le Horla.</div><div id="d23" class="pop_up" style="left: 544px; top: 247px; display: none; ">basket/gondola</div><div id="d24" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 330px; display: none; ">One hurries now, because the gas enters finally into the balloon by a long tube of yellow material that slides on the ground, swells up, twitches like an over-sized worm.</div><div id="d25" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 454px; left: 780px; top: 396px; display: none; ">The beast that will fly soon begins to rise up, and the assistants of the captain Jovis, as the Horla enlarges, extend and put in place the net that covers it, in such a way that the pressure is regular and equally distributed to all points.</div><div id="d26" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 246px; left: 307px; top: 343px; display: none; ">But another thought, another image strikes everyone's eyes and everyone's mind.</div><div id="d27" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 909px; left: 325px; top: 363px; display: none; ">It is this way that nature itself nourishes beings until their birth.</div><div id="d28" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 955px; left: 279px; top: 527px; display: none; ">The Horla, by the way, was designed by Monsieur Mallet, constructed under his eyes and by him.</div><div id="d29" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 888px; left: 346px; top: 478px; display: none; ">because the resistance of the cotton fabric, so thin, of which the aerostat is made is calculated as a function of the amount of contact of this material with the thin net that will carry the gondola.</div><div id="d30" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 472px; left: 762px; top: 527px; display: none; ">Everything was made in the workshops of Monsieur Jovis, by the staff of the company, and nothing outside.</div><div id="d31" class="pop_up" style="left: 699px; top: 516px; display: none; "> workshops</div><div id="d32" class="pop_up" style="left: 634px; top: 245px; display: none; "> basket</div><div id="d33" class="pop_up" style="left: 802px; top: 251px; display: none; "> flesh</div><div id="d34" class="pop_up" style="left: 993px; top: 244px; display: none; "> flank</div><div id="d35" class="pop_up" style="left: 85px; top: 277px; display: none; ">mahogany</div><div id="d36" class="pop_up" style="left: 669px; top: 240px; display: none; "><i>(adjective)</i> square</div><div id="d37" class="pop_up" style="left: 1051px; top: 252px; display: none; "> golden letters</div><div id="d38" class="pop_up" style="left: 835px; top: 203px; display: none; "> sparrowhawk</div><div id="d39" class="pop_up" style="left: 109px; top: 205px; display: none; "> entry courtyard</div><div id="d40" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 576px; display: none; ">One must add that everything is new in this balloon, from the varnish to the valve, those two essential things of the aerostation.</div><div id="d41" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 427px; left: 807px; top: 609px; display: none; ">It must render the fabric impenetrable to the gas, like the sides of a boat are impenetrable to water.</div><div id="d42" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 992px; left: 242px; top: 609px; display: none; ">The old varnishes based on flax oil had the double unsuitability of fermenting and of burning the fabric which, in little time, tear apart like paper.</div><div id="d43" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 658px; display: none; ">The valves offered this danger of closing up imperfectly soon as they had been opened and the coating, thats to say the &nbsp;poultice, which they had applied was broken.</div><div id="d44" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 143px; left: 501px; top: 671px; display: none; ">The fall of Monsieur Lhoste, in the middle of the sea and the middle of the night, prouved, the other week, the imperfection of the old system.</div><div id="d45" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 740px; display: none; ">One could say that the two discoveries of the Captain Jovis, that of the varnish principally, are of inestimable value to the aerostation.</div><div id="d46" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 789px; display: none; ">It was spoken about in addition in the crowd, and men, that seemed to be specialists, affirmed with authority that we will have fallen before the fortifications.</div><div id="d47" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 241px; left: 697px; top: 802px; display: none; ">Many other things even are criticized in this balloon of a new type which we will experience with such pleasure and success.</div><div id="d48" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 871px; display: none; ">It's&nbsp;still&nbsp;growing, slowly.</div><div id="d49" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1133px; left: 101px; top: 904px; display: none; ">This procedure of blocking disquiets and moves the public.</div><div id="d50" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 445px; display: none; ">This operation is very delicate and very important;</div><div id="d51" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 613px; left: 621px; top: 200px; display: none; ">One calls this the conversion into sparrowhawk;</div><div id="d52" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1017px; left: 217px; top: 871px; display: none; ">Small tears are discovered on it made during its transport;</div><div id="d53" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 622px; left: 612px; top: 904px; display: none; ">and they were clogged, according to the practice, with pieces of moistened newspaper applied to the fabric.</div><div id="d54" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 953px; display: none; ">While the Captain Jovis and his personnel occupy themselves with the last details, the voyagers are going to dine at the cafeteria of the gas factory, according to the established custom.</div><div id="d55" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1002px; display: none; ">When we exit again, the aerostat is swaying, enormous and transparent, prodigious fruit of gold, fantastic pear that ripens still, covering it with fire, the last rays of the sun.</div><div id="d56" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1083px; display: none; ">It is here that the gondola is attached, that the barometers are carried over, the siren that will make us moan and wail in the night, the two horns also, and the eating provisions, the overcoat, all the material that can contain, with the men, this flying basket.</div><div id="d57" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1132px; display: none; ">As the wind pushes the ballon on to the gas meters, it must be distanced several times from it inorder to avoid an accident at departure.</div><div id="d58" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1181px; display: none; ">All of a suddent Captain Jovis calles the passengers.</div><div id="d59" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1262px; display: none; ">The Lieutenant Mallet climbs first into the aerial net between the gondola and the aerostat, from where he will survey, during all the night, the progress of the Horla across the sky, like the watch officer, standing on the gangway, surveys the progress of the ship.</div><div id="d60" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 822px; left: 412px; top: 1311px; display: none; ">Monsieur Etienne Beer climbs up next, then M. Paul Bessand, then Monsieur Patrice Eyriès, and then me.</div><div id="d61" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 643px; left: 591px; top: 1360px; display: none; ">But the aerostat is too loaded for the long crossing that we must start, and Monsieur Eyriès must, not without much regret, leave his place.</div><div id="d62" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1182px; left: 52px; top: 1409px; display: none; ">Monsieur Jovis, standing on the edge of the gondola, asks, in very gallant terms, the ladies to separate themselves away a little, because he fears, on rising up, of throwing sand onto their hats;</div><div id="d63" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 211px; left: 53px; top: 1422px; display: none; "><div>then he orders:&nbsp;"Release everything!"</div></div><div id="d64" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 440px; left: 794px; top: 1442px; display: none; ">he gives to the Horla its liberty.</div><div id="d65" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1162px; left: 72px; top: 1442px; display: none; ">And cutting with a strike of a knife the ropes that hang around us the incidental ballast that keeps us on the ground;</div><div id="d66" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1491px; display: none; ">In a second we are departed.</div><div id="d67" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 969px; left: 265px; top: 1491px; display: none; ">One doesn't feel anything;</div><div id="d68" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 860px; left: 374px; top: 1491px; display: none; ">you float, you rise, you fly, you glide.</div><div id="d69" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 618px; left: 616px; top: 1491px; display: none; ">Our friends shout and applaud, we hardly hear them anymore;</div><div id="d70" class="pop_up">we only barely see them.</div><div id="d71" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 991px; left: 243px; top: 1524px; display: none; ">So high!</div><div id="d72" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 934px; left: 300px; top: 1524px; display: none; ">What!</div><div id="d73" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 885px; left: 349px; top: 1524px; display: none; ">We just left those people over there?</div><div id="d74" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 633px; left: 601px; top: 1524px; display: none; ">Is it possible?</div><div id="d75" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 520px; left: 714px; top: 1557px; display: none; ">Under us now, Paris extends, a dark blotch, bluish, cut up by the streets, and from where jumps up in various places, domes, towers, steeples;</div><div id="d76" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 731px; left: 503px; top: 1590px; display: none; ">then, all around, the plain, the land that cuts up the long roads, thin and white in the middle of green fields, of a soft or dark green, and woods almost black.</div><div id="d77" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1639px; display: none; ">The Seine seems to be a large coiled up serpent, laying down immobile, of which one did not perceive neither the head or the tail;</div><div id="d78" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 609px; left: 625px; top: 1672px; display: none; ">it comes from over there, it leaves over there, crossing Paris, and the entire land seems to be an immense basin of meadows and forests that a low mountain on the horizon, distant and circular, closes up.</div><div id="d79" class="pop_up">The sun that one did not notice anymore from below reappears for us, as if it rose up again, and our balloon itself lights up in this light;</div><div id="d80" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 325px; left: 909px; top: 1754px; display: none; ">it must seem like a star to those that look at us.</div><div id="d81" class="pop_up">Monsieur Mallet, from second to second, throws into the void a piece of cigarette paper and says tranquilly;</div><div id="d82" class="pop_up" style="left: 326px; top: 1785px; display: none; ">we rise up, we rise up still, while Captain Jovis, beaming with joy, rubs his hands together repeating:</div><div id="d83" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1107px; left: 127px; top: 1787px; display: none; ">Eh?</div><div id="d84" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 855px; left: 379px; top: 1787px; display: none; ">This varnish, eh!</div><div id="d85" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 751px; left: 483px; top: 1787px; display: none; ">this varnish.</div><div id="d86" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1836px; display: none; ">One cannot, in fact, assess the climbs and the descents but by throwing out from time to time a piece of cigarette paper.</div><div id="d87" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 441px; left: 793px; top: 1869px; display: none; ">If this paper, that remains, in reality, suspended in the air, seems to fall like a rock, it is that the balloon climbs;</div><div id="d88" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 875px; left: 359px; top: 1869px; display: none; ">if it seems on the contrary to fly off toward the sky, it is that the balloon descends.</div><div id="d89" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 1950px; display: none; ">The two barometers indicate about five hundred meters, and we look at with an enthusiastic admiration, this land that we leave, to which we are not connected at all by anything and that seems to be a painted map of geography, of a oversized map of Province.</div><div id="d90" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 792px; left: 442px; top: 1950px; display: none; ">All these soft noises reach us distinct, strangely recognizable.</div><div id="d91" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 273px; left: 968px; top: 1973px; display: none; ">You hear especially the noise of wheels on the roads, the cracking of whips, the 'yaw' of stagecoach drivers, the rolling and the whistling of trains, the laughs of kids that run and play in the town squares.</div><div id="d92" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 258px; left: 642px; top: 2006px; display: none; ">Every time we pass over a village, it is the roar of children that dominate everything and climbs into the sky with the most acuteness.</div><div id="d93" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 2065px; display: none; ">Men call to us;</div><div id="d94" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1018px; left: 216px; top: 2065px; display: none; ">locomotives whistle;</div><div id="d95" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 861px; left: 373px; top: 2098px; display: none; ">we respond with a siren that puts out plaintive groans, frightening, thin, true voice of a fantastic being roaming around the world.</div><div id="d96" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 2147px; display: none; ">Lights come on from various places, isolated fires on the farms, chimneys of gas in the towns.</div><div id="d97" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 586px; left: 648px; top: 2147px; display: none; ">We are going toward the northwest after having glided for much time over the small lake of Enghien.</div><div id="d98" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 63px; left: 202px; top: 2170px; display: none; "><div>A river appears:&nbsp;it is the Oise.</div></div><div id="d99" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1024px; left: 210px; top: 2180px; display: none; ">Now we discuss with each other in order to find out where we are.</div><div id="d100" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 705px; left: 529px; top: 2180px; display: none; ">That town that shines over there, is it Creil or Pontoise?</div><div id="d101" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 996px; left: 238px; top: 2213px; display: none; ">and then this fire, this enormous fire over to the left, is it not the furnace of Montataire?</div><div id="d102" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 375px; left: 859px; top: 2213px; display: none; ">If we were over Pontoise, one would be able to see it seems the junction of the Seine and of the Oise;</div><div id="d103" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 2262px; display: none; ">We are located in truth over Creil.</div><div id="d104" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 955px; left: 279px; top: 2262px; display: none; ">The spectacle is surprising;</div><div id="d105" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 773px; left: 461px; top: 2262px; display: none; ">on the ground it is night and we are still in the light, past ten o'clock.</div><div id="d106" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 261px; left: 700px; top: 2285px; display: none; ">Now we hear the soft noises of the fields, the double cry of quails especially, then the meowing of cats and the howling of dogs.</div><div id="d107" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 526px; left: 708px; top: 2295px; display: none; ">Certainly, the dogs smell the balloon, see it and give the alarm.</div><div id="d108" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 128px; left: 506px; top: 2318px; display: none; ">You hear them all over the plain, barking at us and howling, like they howl to the moon.</div><div id="d109" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 720px; left: 514px; top: 2328px; display: none; ">The cows also seem to wake up in the stables because they moo;</div><div id="d110" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 275px; left: 250px; top: 2351px; display: none; ">all the scared animals become worked up before this aerial monster that passes.</div><div id="d111" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 2442px; display: none; ">And the smells of the ground climb toward us, delicious, smells of hay, of flowers, of the green and wet land, perfuming the air, the light air, so light, so sweet, so delicious that never in my life have I breathed with so much happiness.</div><div id="d112" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 971px; left: 263px; top: 2475px; display: none; ">A profound well-being, unknown, invades me, well-being of body and of &nbsp;mind, made from non-caring, of infinite rest, of forgetting, of indifference to everything and of this new sensation of traversing space without feeling anything that which makes movement insupportable, without noise, without jolts and without trepidations.</div><div id="d113" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 1204px; left: 30px; top: 2524px; display: none; ">Sometimes we climb and sometimes we descend.</div><div id="d114" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 900px; left: 334px; top: 2524px; display: none; ">From time to time, the Lieutenant Mallet, suspended in his spider web, says to Captain Jovis: we are descending, throw out half a fistful.</div><div id="d115" class="pop_up" style="visibility: visible; position: absolute; max-width: 36px; left: 853px; top: 2547px; display: none; ">And the captain who converses and laughs with us, a sack of ballast between his knees, takes from the sack a little sand and throws it over the edge.</div><div id="d116" class="pop_up" style="left: 417px; top: 2396px; display: none; "> hay</div><div id="d117" class="pop_up" style="left: 112px; top: 2405px; display: none; "> smells</div><div id="d118" class="pop_up" style="left: 778px; top: 2441px; display: none; ">made from a lack of caring/worrying<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></span></font>Elle marche, elle parle avec&nbsp;<b>nonchalance</b>, avec une certaine&nbsp;<b>nonchalance</b>&nbsp;qui n'est pas sans grâce.<br></i></span></b></span>&nbsp;She walks, she talks without a care, with a certain nonchalance that is not without grace.</div><div id="d119" class="pop_up" style="left: 869px; top: 2434px; display: none; "> rest<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il y a longtemps que vous travaillez, donnez-vous un peu de&nbsp;<b>repos</b></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b></b></i></span></div>You've been working for a long time ago give yourself a little rest.</div><div id="d120" class="pop_up" style="left: 905px; top: 2447px; display: none; "> infinite</div><div id="d121" class="pop_up" style="left: 969px; top: 2432px; display: none; "> forgetting</div><div id="d122" class="pop_up" style="left: 730px; top: 2465px; display: none; "> jolts</div><div id="d123" class="pop_up" style="left: 903px; top: 2477px; display: none; "> trepidation / fear</div><div id="d124" class="pop_up" style="left: 343px; top: 2446px; display: none; "> well-being</div><div id="d125" class="pop_up" style="left: 38px; top: 2515px; display: none; "> sometimes</div><div id="d126" class="pop_up" style="left: 182px; top: 2553px; display: none; "><b>causer</b> converse</div><div id="d127" class="pop_up" style="left: 838px; top: 2549px; display: none; "> throw&nbsp;overboard<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il sauta&nbsp;<b>par-dessus</b>&nbsp;la barrière.</i></span></div><div>He jumped over the fence.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il porte un grand manteau&nbsp;<b>par-dessus</b>&nbsp;son habit.</i></span></div> He wears a cloak over his clothes.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Le&nbsp;<b>bord</b>&nbsp;de l'eau.</i></span></div> The edge of the water.</div><div id="d128" class="pop_up" style="left: 572px; top: 1446px; display: none; "> ballast</div><div id="d129" class="pop_up"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">(Action de mettre)<br></span></font><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "></span>Mise</b>&nbsp;en bouteilles&nbsp;-&nbsp;</i></span>bottling</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en marche -&nbsp;</i></span>start in motion</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en bière - </i>conversion into beer</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;au point&nbsp;- </i>update</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en valeur- &nbsp;</i>enhance the value</span></div></div><div id="d130" class="pop_up" style="left: 742px; top: 197px; display: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002BB8">Action de mettre<br></font></span></font><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en bouteilles&nbsp;to&nbsp;</i></span>bottle</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en marche </i>to start in motion</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en bière -&nbsp;</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;au point -&nbsp;</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Mise</b>&nbsp;en valeur -&nbsp;</i></span></div><br></div><div id="d131" class="pop_up" style="left: 910px; top: 144px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; ">structure</span></div><div id="d132" class="pop_up" style="left: 856px; top: 144px; display: none; "> scary</div><div id="d133" class="pop_up" style="left: 436px; top: 148px; display: none; "> truncated</div><div id="d134" class="pop_up" style="left: 362px; top: 145px; display: none; "> monstrous</div><div id="d135" class="pop_up" style="left: 689px; top: 123px; display: none; ">city of&nbsp;cyclopes (giant one-eyed people)</div><div id="d136" class="pop_up" style="left: 881px; top: 114px; display: none; "> dark</div><div id="d137" class="pop_up" style="left: 628px; top: 322px; display: none; "><b>ramper&nbsp;</b>to crawl; to slide on the ground<div><i>Le serpent et le ver de terre rampent sur le sol.</i></div> The snake and the worm craw on the ground.</div><div id="d138" class="pop_up" style="left: 331px; top: 250px; display: none; "> sitting<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b>asseoir&nbsp;</b><i>- </i>to sit</span><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Asseyons-nous par terre.<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Let us sit on the floor.</span></i></span></div></div></div><div id="d139" class="pop_up" style="left: 375px; top: 253px; display: none; "> standing</div><div id="d140" class="pop_up" style="left: 908px; top: 247px; display: none; "><b> porter- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">to bear, to carry</span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Ce monument&nbsp;<b>porte</b>&nbsp;telle inscription.</i></span></span></b></div><div>this monument bears this inscription.</div></div><div id="d141" class="pop_up" style="left: 115px; top: 324px; display: none; "><b>se précipiter</b>&nbsp;- to hurry</div><div id="d142" class="pop_up" style="left: 556px; top: 330px; display: none; "> canvas</div><div id="d143" class="pop_up" style="left: 784px; top: 334px; display: none; "><b>palpiter</b>&nbsp;to twitch; to beat<div><i>en-dehors de la terre, le ver palpite</i></div> outside of the earth, the worm beats</div><div id="d144" class="pop_up" style="left: 931px; top: 324px; display: none; "> enormous</div><div id="d145" class="pop_up" style="left: 750px; top: 316px; display: none; "><b>gonfler </b>to swell<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Le vent&nbsp;<b>gonfle</b>&nbsp;les voiles.</i></span></div><div>the wind fills the sails.</div></div><div id="d146" class="pop_up" style="left: 1092px; top: 317px; display: none; "> thought</div><div id="d147" class="pop_up" style="left: 121px; top: 358px; display: none; "><b>frapper</b> strike</div><div id="d148" class="pop_up" style="left: 711px; top: 365px; display: none; "> birth</div><div id="d149" class="pop_up" style="left: 1099px; top: 359px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; ">to lift up slightly</span></div><div id="d150" class="pop_up" style="left: 349px; top: 395px; display: none; "><b>grossir</b> grows</div><div id="d151" class="pop_up" style="left: 1075px; top: 395px; display: none; "><b>répartir</b>&nbsp;to distribute<div>La mère a reparti le gâteau entre ses enfants</div> the mother distributed the cake between her children</div><div id="d152" class="pop_up" style="left: 612px; top: 446px; display: none; "> thin</div><div id="d153" class="pop_up" style="left: 85px; top: 469px; display: none; "> mesh</div><div id="d154" class="pop_up" style="left: 199px; top: 531px; display: none; "><b>dessiner</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;to design, to draw<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Dessiner</b>&nbsp;le paysage.</i></span></div> draw the landscape.</div><div id="d155" class="pop_up" style="left: 862px; top: 522px; display: none; "> employees</div><div id="d156" class="pop_up" style="left: 981px; top: 520px; display: none; "> company</div><div id="d157" class="pop_up" style="left: 474px; top: 601px; display: none; "> flax</div><div id="d158" class="pop_up" style="left: 419px; top: 612px; display: none; "> oil</div><div id="d159" class="pop_up" style="left: 728px; top: 596px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 32px;">to ferment</span></div><div id="d160" class="pop_up" style="left: 405px; top: 576px; display: none; "> varnish</div><div id="d161" class="pop_up" style="left: 344px; top: 606px; display: none; "> varnish</div><div id="d162" class="pop_up"><b>pénetrer </b>to penetrate</div><div id="d163" class="pop_up" style="left: 910px; top: 358px; display: none; "><b>envoler </b>take off<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Le moindre bruit fait&nbsp;<b>envoler</b>&nbsp;les moineaux.</i></span></div> The slightest noise makes the sparrows fly off.</div><div id="d164" class="pop_up" style="left: 375px; top: 400px; display: none; "><b>étendre</b>&nbsp;- to spread out, to stretch<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>L'armée s'<b>étendit</b>&nbsp;dans la plaine.</i></span></div>The army spread out in the plain.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Étendre</b>&nbsp;le bras</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">streatch out the arm</span></div></div><div id="d165" class="pop_up" style="left: 716px; top: 449px; display: none; "> balloon</div><div id="d166" class="pop_up" style="left: 513px; top: 564px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; ">valve</span></div><div id="d167" class="pop_up" style="left: 762px; top: 577px; display: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div>(Art de construire des aérostats, de les employer, de les diriger)</div></span></font> art of building airships, their use, and piloting</div><div id="d168" class="pop_up" style="left: 1059px; top: 613px; display: none; "><b>déchirer</b> <i>to tear</i></div><div id="d169" class="pop_up" style="left: 733px; top: 647px; display: none; "><div>1.) coating</div><div><i>Un enduit de goudron &nbsp;</i>a coating of tar</div>2. (Couche de chaux, de plâtre, de ciment, ou de quelque autre matière semblable, que l'on applique sur les murailles)&nbsp; layer of lime, plaster, cement, or some similar material that is applied on the walls.</div><div id="d170" class="pop_up" style="left: 844px; top: 652px; display: none; ">(Une préparation de plante assez pâteuse pour être appliquée sur la peau dans un but thérapeutique.)&nbsp; <br>a preparation of plants to be applied on the skin for therapeutic purposes.</div><div id="d171" class="pop_up" style="left: 976px; top: 662px; display: none; "><b>garnir </b>-&nbsp;garnish<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Garnir</b>&nbsp;une bibliothèque de livres<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Supply a library with books</span></i></span></div></div><div id="d172" class="pop_up" style="left: 240px; top: 787px; display: none; "> crowd</div><div id="d173" class="pop_up">fortifications<br>refers to the wall built in 1840 that surrounds Paris (See&nbsp;Enceintes de Paris)<br><br></div><div id="d174" class="pop_up" style="left: 934px; top: 790px; display: none; ">fortifications<br>refers to the wall built in 1840 that surrounds Paris (See&nbsp;Enceintes de Paris)<br></div><div id="d175" class="pop_up" style="left: 108px; top: 817px; display: none; "><b>blâmer</b> to criticize; to blame</div><div id="d176" class="pop_up" style="left: 721px; top: 2526px; display: none; ">spider web</div><div id="d177" class="pop_up" style="left: 651px; top: 2413px; display: none; "><b>mouiller</b> to wet</div><div id="d178" class="pop_up" style="left: 504px; top: 2135px; display: none; "> rosary</div><div id="d179" class="pop_up" style="left: 69px; top: 2178px; display: none; ">river that flows into another river (not the sea)</div><div id="d180" class="pop_up" style="left: 625px; top: 2204px; display: none; "><div>blast furnace</div><div>(fourneau destiné à fondre le minerai de fer à une haute température)</div> furnace for melting iron ore at high temperature</div><div id="d181" class="pop_up" style="left: 49px; top: 2209px; display: none; "> junction</div><div id="d182" class="pop_up" style="left: 544px; top: 2054px; display: none; "><div><br></div></div><div id="d183" class="pop_up" style="left: 709px; top: 2055px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">whimpering</span></div><div id="d184" class="pop_up" style="left: 750px; top: 2065px; display: none; "> plaintive</div><div id="d185" class="pop_up" style="left: 796px; top: 2062px; display: none; "><div><b>affreux /&nbsp;affreuse&nbsp;</b><i>(adjective)</i>&nbsp;frightening</div></div><div id="d186" class="pop_up" style="left: 613px; top: 2069px; display: none; "><div>2. ) (Sortir avec force en parlant des paroles, des sons)&nbsp;</div><div>speaking words or making sounds&nbsp;with force</div><div>Il poussait des cris.</div><div>he shrieked.</div><div>1. ) push</div></div><div id="d187" class="pop_up" style="left: 555px; top: 1941px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; ">murmurs (wind, voice)</span></div><div id="d188" class="pop_up" style="left: 164px; top: 1976px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">cracking</span></div><div id="d189" class="pop_up" style="left: 379px; top: 1988px; display: none; ">driver of a cart</div><div id="d190" class="pop_up" style="left: 455px; top: 1988px; display: none; "> rolling</div><div id="d191" class="pop_up" style="left: 518px; top: 1973px; display: none; "> whistle</div><div id="d192" class="pop_up" style="left: 152px; top: 2008px; display: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">cacophony</span></div><div id="d193" class="pop_up" style="left: 913px; top: 1832px; display: none; "><b>demeurer</b> to remain<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il a&nbsp;<b>demeuré</b>&nbsp;trois ans à Paris.</i></span></div> he stayed three years in Paris.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><b>Demeurer</b>&nbsp;à son poste.</i></span></div> Stay at his post.</div><div id="d194" class="pop_up" style="left: 724px; top: 947px; display: none; ">cafeteria&nbsp;</div><div id="d195" class="pop_up" style="left: 707px; top: 867px; display: none; "><b>boucher </b>to stop up</div><div id="d196" class="pop_up" style="left: 970px; top: 871px; display: none; "> newspaper</div><div id="d197" class="pop_up" style="left: 331px; top: 904px; display: none; "><b>emouvoir</b>&nbsp;(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Provoquer une émotion.) provoke an emotion</span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il s'<b>émeut</b>&nbsp;à la vue de la souffrance.</i></span></div></div><div>He is moved at the sight of suffering.</div></div><div id="d198" class="pop_up" style="left: 301px; top: 1005px; display: none; "><b>balancer </b>to sway, to swing<div><i>Balancer ses bras. </i>Swing his arms</div></div><div id="d199" class="pop_up" style="left: 141px; top: 999px; display: none; "><b>ressortir </b>go out again</div><div id="d200" class="pop_up" style="left: 512px; top: 1001px; display: none; "><b>prodigieux /&nbsp;prodigieuse</b> marvelous, stupendous</div><div id="d201" class="pop_up" style="left: 606px; top: 1003px; display: none; "> pear</div><div id="d202" class="pop_up" style="left: 722px; top: 1001px; display: none; "><b>mûrir </b>to ripen</div><div id="d203" class="pop_up" style="left: 1050px; top: 993px; display: none; "> rays</div><div id="d204" class="pop_up" style="left: 328px; top: 1038px; display: none; "> barometers</div><div id="d205" class="pop_up" style="left: 450px; top: 1053px; display: none; ">siren,&nbsp;(boat) foghorn</div><div id="d206" class="pop_up" style="left: 572px; top: 1055px; display: none; ">to moan</div><div id="d207" class="pop_up" style="left: 633px; top: 1038px; display: none; ">to wail</div><div id="d208" class="pop_up"> horns</div><div id="d209" class="pop_up" style="left: 1022px; top: 1047px; display: none; ">supplies of food</div><div id="d210" class="pop_up"> overcoats</div><div id="d211" class="pop_up" style="left: 1091px; top: 1219px; display: none; ">watch officer</div><div id="d212" class="pop_up" style="left: 96px; top: 1250px; display: none; ">bridge</div><div id="d213" class="pop_up" style="left: 192px; top: 1346px; display: none; "><b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">loaded</span></b></div>charger</b> - to load</div><div id="d214" class="pop_up" style="left: 501px; top: 1364px; display: none; ">to undertake</div><div id="d215" class="pop_up" style="left: 310px; top: 1406px; display: none; "><b>prier</b> to request</div><div id="d216" class="pop_up" style="left: 545px; top: 1406px; display: none; "><b>écarter</b> - to move something further apart<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Le vent a&nbsp;<b>écarté</b>&nbsp;les nuages.<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">the wind moved the clouds away from each other.&nbsp;</span></i></span></div></div><div id="d217" class="pop_up" style="left: 150px; top: 1434px; display: none; "><b> trancher</b>&nbsp;cut through</div><div id="d218" class="pop_up" style="left: 337px; top: 1440px; display: none; "> ropes</div><div id="d219" class="pop_up" style="left: 81px; top: 1937px; display: none; "> map</div><div id="d220" class="pop_up"> star</div><div id="d221" class="pop_up" style="left: 425px; top: 1758px; display: none; ">void</div><div id="d222" class="pop_up"><b>frotter - </b>to rub</div><div id="d223" class="pop_up" style="left: 588px; top: 1481px; display: none; "><b>planer</b>&nbsp;to glide</div><div id="d224" class="pop_up" style="left: 906px; top: 1513px; display: none; "><b>étaler</b> - to spread out</div><div id="d225" class="pop_up" style="left: 1083px; top: 1515px; display: none; "> bluish</div><div id="d226" class="pop_up" style="left: 1124px; top: 1528px; display: none; "> chopped</div><div id="d227" class="pop_up" style="left: 122px; top: 1673px; display: none; "> bowl</div><div id="d228" class="pop_up" style="left: 170px; top: 1673px; display: none; "> meadows</div><div id="d229" class="pop_up" style="left: 393px; top: 2298px; display: none; "> meows</div><div id="d230" class="pop_up" style="left: 580px; top: 2285px; display: none; "> howling</div><div id="d231" class="pop_up" style="left: 260px; top: 2295px; display: none; "> quails</div><div id="d232" class="pop_up" style="left: 832px; top: 2299px; display: none; "><b>sentir</b>&nbsp;to smell</div><div id="d233" class="pop_up" style="left: 519px; top: 63px; display: none; "> plant, factory</div><div id="d234" class="pop_up" style="left: 706px; top: 653px; display: none; "><b>briser</b> to break</div><div id="d235" class="pop_up" style="left: 1031px; top: 656px; display: none; ">fall</div><div id="d236" class="pop_up" style="left: 795px; top: 873px; display: none; ">custom, habit<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>Il a l'<b>usage</b>&nbsp;de dîner de bonne heure.</i></span></div> he has the habit of having dinner&nbsp;early.</div><div id="d237" class="pop_up" style="left: 648px; top: 2175px; display: none; "><b>briller </b>to shine</div><div id="d238" class="pop_up" style="left: 1129px; top: 1404px; display: none; "><b>commander</b> to order</div> 
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